CCIA documents concerning the United Nations
Documents of to the World Council of Churches' Commission of the Churches on International Affairs
Please refer to the menu on the left-hand side to see more documents related to a specific programmatic area.
| Title | EffectiveDate | document_type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Statement in Support of the Multilateral Negotiation of a Nuclear Weapons Ban in 2017 | 12 October 2016 | Statement: public statement | Submitted to the 2016 UN General Assembly First Committee by Faith Communities Concerned about the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons |
| Human Rights Day 2015 | 10 December 2015 | Statement: public statement | Statement on International Human Rights Day |
| Communiqué on stateless people | 05 March 2013 | Statement: public statement | Communiqué from consultation on stateless people, “Towards an ecumenical advocacy on the rights of stateless people”held from 27 February to 1 March 2013 in Washington, D.C., United States. |
| UNAW Report 2009 Annex III: Prayer Resources | 14 May 2010 | Liturgical text | United Nations Advocacy Week Opening Prayer, Monday Morning Prayer: Climate Displaced Peoples, Tuesday Morning Prayer: Indigenous Peoples Rights, Wednesday Morning Prayer: Colombia, Thursday Morning Prayer, Closing Prayer |
| UNAW Report 2009 Annex II: Speaker Presentations, Section B | 14 May 2010 | Report | Climate Displaced Peoples Session, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Session, Colombia Session, Closing Keynote: theologian and activist |
| UNAW Report 2009 Annex II: Speaker Presentations, Section A | 14 May 2010 | Report | Keynote II: Charge and Challenge to the Churches the Churches; Thematic Priority I: Climate Displaced Peoples. |
| Report: Churches Together to Transform the World | 14 May 2010 | Report | The CCIA convened its 5th United Nations Advocacy Week (UNAW) on 15-20 November 2009 in New York City. |
| UNAW Report 2008 Annex IV: Prayer resources | 23 January 2009 | Liturgical text | Climate change Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) Human rights Migration Public witness: addressing power, affirming peace United Nations |
| UNAW Report 2008 Annex II | 23 January 2009 | Report | United Nations Advocacy Week 2008 speaker presentations: Our Common Strategic Global Ecumenical Advocacy, Public Witness Advocacy, Human Rights, Climate Change |
| UNAW Report 2008 Annex I | 23 January 2009 | Report | United Nations Advocacy Week 2008 planning team, additions to UNAW 2008, agenda, speaker biographies, participant analysis, participant list, participants evaluation. |
| UNAW 2008 Report | 23 January 2009 | Report | The United Nations Advocacy Week 2008 Report is a reminder of what was discussed and experienced at the UNAW and one of the key instruments to be used in local and global advocacy work. |
| UNAW 2007 Report | 01 January 2008 | Report | For the United Nations Advocacy Week 2007, the WCC chose to emphasize four themes, a primary focus on the Greater Horn of Africa; water, nuclear disarmament and the Middle East, with an emphasis on Palestine and Israel. |
| Initiative for a resolution to move forward on nuclear disarmament | 08 February 2006 | Statement: letter | Letter to Ambassador Rosemary Banks, Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations |
| Background Information to Evaluate the Gaza Pullout | 22 August 2005 | B | |
| Seminar on UN Reform and Civil Society, Stockholm, Sweden | 15 January 2005 | L | |
| Letter to Madam Justice Louise Arbour on the occasion of her appointment | 03 March 2004 | M | |
| Expression of concern on tensions in the Korean peninsula | 15 January 2004 | S | |
| The collaboration of the WCC with International Governmental Institutions | 22 November 2003 | A | |
| Iraq - Appeal to church leaders in member states of the UN Security Council | 24 October 2002 | S | |
| Iraq - Appeal to the governments of China, France, Russia and the UK | 19 September 2002 | S | |
| Appeal to Iraq to respect the resolutions of the UN Security Council | 19 September 2002 | S | |
| Report of the XLV meeting of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs | 03 June 2002 | R | |
| Background paper submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | 15 August 2001 | Background document | The CCIA, against the background of more than fifty years of work against racism and its effects, notably through the WCC Program to Combat Racism, has submitted comments for consideration in the drafting of the Draft Declaration and Programme of Action. |
| Policy framework and guidelines on small arms and light weapons | 18 May 2001 | P | |
| Resolution on United Nations Relations | 14 May 2001 | P | |
| Report of the XLIV Meeting of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs | 14 May 2001 | R | |
| Oral intervention on human rights violations in the occupied Arab territories | 28 March 2001 | S | The following is the full text of the intervention made on Wednesday, 28 March, to the 57th Session of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights, meeting in Geneva, 19 March - 27 April 2001 |
| Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Sharing the land, the truth and the peace | 17 October 2000 | Statement: public statement | Written submission by the CCIA to the Fifth Special Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights devoted to grave and massive violations of the human rights of the Palestinian people by Israel |
| CCIA granted General Consultative Status with ECOSOC | 03 May 2000 | B |
